Although the ship seen in Insurrection carried the registry number "NCC-75227", Starships says that registry numbers are not applicable to ships of this class, including the USS Talon. As Talon-class scouts are assigned to other vessels and stations, it seems likely that "NCC-75227" is the registry number of another starship or of the Ba'ku duck-blind station.

There is an apparent contradiction in that the Star Trek: The Next Generation Player's Guide placed the Talon at Starbase 315, while Starships identified it as the ship used on the planet Ba'ku at around the same time. It is possible that the ship was reassigned to Ba'ku, or that a mission from Starbase 315 sent it there (suggesting that NCC-75227 belongs to Starbase 315).